Dean Foods

Dean Foods Company
legal form	Corporation
ISIN	US2423702032
founding	1925
Seat	Dallas , United States
management	Gregg A. Tanner ( CEO )
Number of employees	14,500 (2019)
sales	7,330,000,000 USD (2019)
Branch	Food
Website	www.deanfoods.com
As of December 31, 2019

Dean Foods is an American dairy company headquartered in Dallas , Texas . It has been listed on the New York Stock Exchange since March 5, 1997 under the symbol DF and on the S&P 500 stock index since 2006.

Dean Foods produces various products based on milk . In this market segment, Dean Foods is the market leader in the United States. Following the acquisition of Alpro of Vandemoortele 2009 Dean Foods market leader in soy products has been Europe . The Alpro brand was spun off again in 2013 as The WhiteWave Foods Company and sold on the stock exchange by means of an IPO .

At over 100 locations in 38 states , over 14,000 employees produce Dean Foods products. They generated sales of USD 7.33 billion .

history

The company was founded in 1925 by Samuel E. Dean. He acquired the Illinois -based Pecatonica Marketing Company and renamed it the Dean Evaporated Milk Company in 1927 . In the following years Dean acquired other dairies in Illinois. In December 2001 the company was acquired by the competitor Suiza Foods Corporation from Dallas. This resulted in today's Dean Foods company in Dallas.

In the first quarter of 2011, Schreiber Foods took over the yoghurt division from Dean Foods.

In November 2019, Dean Foods, the second largest dairy in the United States, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy .

Brands

Some of the brands sold by Dean Foods include:

Alta Dena Barber's Berkeley Farms Broughton Foods Company Brown's Dairy Country Fresh Creamland Dairy pure Dean Foods Ultra

Gandy's Garelick Farms Hygeia Land Lakes Lehigh Valley Mayfield Dairy Farms McArthur Dairy Meadow Brook Meadow gold Model Dairy

OakFarms Dairy PET Evaporated Milk Price's Purity Rider Dairy Swiss Premium TG Lee TruMoo Tuscan Dairy Farms Verifine

See also

• List of the largest dairy companies

Web links

• Dean Foods

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dean Foods (Ed.): Bios . ( HTML [accessed January 11, 2013]).
2. ↑ Employees 2019 , accessed on June 11, 2020
3. ↑ Sales 2019 , accessed June 11, 2020
4. ↑ ^{a b} Dean Foods Company. New York Stock Exchange , accessed February 9, 2016 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Dean Foods (Ed.): Brief History . ( HTML [accessed January 11, 2013]).
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Schreiber Foods Acquires Dean Foods' Yogurt Business . In: Dairy Foods . January 10, 2011 ( HTML [accessed January 11, 2013]).
7. ^ Dean Foods - WhiteWave Spin-Off
8. ↑ Hedge Funds Are Buying WhiteWave Foods Co (WWAV) - Insider Monkey
9. ↑ Reuters (ed.): Dean Foods Co . ( HTML [accessed January 11, 2013]).
10. ↑ Dean Foods (Ed.): Our Brands . ( HTML [accessed January 11, 2013]).